[LUG] Find (and remove) empty directories

[Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx>]

I seem to recall there was a series of discussions on using Find to
discover (and delete) empty directories. From memory there was a one line
command that would do it.
    
    Using tar to back up new files from a certain date from the wife's
    hard-drive. I now have to unpack the tar file and delete empty
    directories.

I tried searching this morning but could not find any. 

Before I started experimenting Google has the following commands

    find -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;
    find -type d -empty -delete

    http://duramecho.com/ComputerPrograms/DeleteEmptyDirectories/index.html

Any help much appreciated


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